Electronic Commerce signifies exchanging of goods and services all through the internet. An e-commerce site can be as simple as a catalog page having a phone number.  It could be an online store where you add products to an electronic shopping cart, pay with a credit card and have the product shipped to your door.  It can also be a website where you purchase a digital product, like software, ebooks, audio or video files.  Then you pay with a credit card and can immediately download the product you purchased.

• When you build an ecommerce site there are many things you will need to consider:
• Should you build a custom shopping cart?
• Should you purchase an existing shopping cart and use that?
• Should you find an open source shopping cart and modify it to incorporate your brand?
• What method of payments do you want to accept?
• Where will you get a merchant account?
• What Payment Gateway Service Provider will you use?
• How do you integrate you’re payment gateway with your website?
• What methods of shipping will you offer?
• How will you charge for shipping, flat fee, by item, actual cost, actual cost plus a handling fee?
• How will you add products to your shopping cart?
• How will you add images of your products?
• Will you accept coupons?
• Will you run specials?
• Where will you host your ecommerce store?
• Etc……..

If you are looking to create or add an ecommerce site to your business you need to think about all the questions above and create a plan.

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